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Jan 18Jan 18

Posted by AlanCliffe

Zardoz, from '74, on DVD. Its premise, as far as I can tell, is that if Yeshua ben Joseph and Dorothy Gale had a son he'd look like Sean Connery. It held my attention for a while, and there are some nice views, but it doesn't really work. It's ...

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Jan 13Jan 13

Posted by AlanCliffe

A Hammer and Some Nails An unmarried man in later middle age, handy enough around his own house, undertook to refurbish a cedar chest he'd bought used some years ago for a property he had since sold. Two of its feet had got broken in transit. It's ...

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Jan 3Jan 3

Posted by AlanCliffe

An Immodest Proposal When and if 45 and 45ism are finally defeated, which I doubt I will live to see, it seems to me that if there is afterward something like a Truth and Reconciliation Commission—well, make that Truth and Reconstruction; I don't ...

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Dec 3, 2024Dec 2024

Posted by AlanCliffe

I wonder how many suicides have already taken place over 11/5. Not to mention all the too-soon deaths still to come as a result of it, which I don't doubt will number in the millions or tens of millions. A friend of a Facebook friend spoke recently, ...

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